Quite the opposite:
The Spring Folk Festival was originally a pagan fertility festival – named for the pre- Christian goddesses of Europe – hence the fecundity of bunnies, easter eggs and celebration of the spring, the rising sun, coming warmth and new growth.

The very opposite is true.

The populations and elites of Russia and Germany were steeped in Christianity, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Lutheran with their inbuilt anti-Semitism, elitism and ultra-conservative and authoritarian politics and prejudices.

There is much more evidence and photographs on
http://www.secularsites.freeuk.com/HitlerStalin.htm

What right do others have to proscribe what others want to do? Why do some people insist that they have the right to tell others how to live their lives? If people want a contract that only lasts for a certain length of time, then they go their separate ways, why not? It’s up to them.

We need to move away from the prescriptive descriptions of marriage that we have and move to a more open society.

He states it could lead to polygamy. Who cares?

Answer: very many people in this country today. The real question is: so what?

There is a “Monogamy Meme” that programmes people, whose minds it occupies, (including George Carey) to practice monogamy, to punish (or to reward others who punish) those who practice polygamy (which is why it is a criminal offence) and to execute the meme’s “copy me” instruction.

The Monogamy Meme evolves to a position of abundance in the mutation–selection equilibrium of the population – or not, depending on the circumstances; there is a “Polygamy Meme”, which abounds in some cultures and which is seldom completely absent. The fact, that monogamy happens to abound in most contemporary western cultures, does not make it intrinsically “moral”, and polygamy (or some other human mating system) intrinsically “immoral”. They are what they are – how they have evolved to be – not what they ought or ought not to be.

But Carey and his ilk labour under the illusion of morality, which is a by-product of the Monogamy Meme’s “copy me” instruction (which is what makes it a replicator, upon which the evolutionary algorithm operates). And they have postulated a divine commander to elevate their perception of monogamy to the status of a truth claim.

Matt Ridley (in “The Red Queen”, 1993) writes:-

Most people live in monogamous societies, but this may only tell us what democracy usually prescribes, not what human nature seeks. Relax the anti-polygamy laws and it flourishes. Utah has a tradition of theologically sanctioned polygamy and in recent years has been less forceful about prosecuting polygamists, so the habit has re-emerged. Although the most populous societies are monogamous, about three-quarters of all tribal cultures are polygamous, and even the ostensibly monogamous ones are monogamous in name only. Throughout history powerful men have usually had more than one mate each, even if they have had only one legitimate wife. However, that is for the powerful. For the rest, even in openly polygamous societies, most men have only one wife and virtually all women have only one husband. That leaves us precisely nowhere. Mankind is a polygamist and a monogamist, Indeed, perhaps it is foolish even to talk of mankind having a mating system at all. He does what he wants, adapting his behaviour to the prevailing opportunity.

The de-criminalizing of bigamy and the further redefinition of marriage, to remove the prescription of exclusivity, may well turn out to be the next legal step changes, reflection ever-evolving human mating systems.

Our political system is such a convoluted and biased archaic mish-mash, that unless we get rid of the Lords, remove the monarchy and secularise the entire process of government, then this sort of foot dragging nonsense will continue to undermine real issues of social importance.

I remember last week seeing an interview on the daily politics were Andrew Neil the presenter, asked MP Jacob Reese-Mogg if he would vote in favour for or against the same sex marriage bill, his response??? That he would vote against it because he was a staunch Roman Catholic!!! How can such an intelligent and logical man make a foolish and irresponsible decision like that??? Religion truly is a virus!!